Chengdu will step up its efforts to better its institutional environment, enhance its soft power and global competitive edge, and launch feasible measures and actions to become more international, market-oriented and business-friendly.

On February 11, the first work day after the Chinese Spring Festival holiday, Chengdu held a citywide conference to further optimize its international business environment.

According to the Doing Business 2019 released by the World Bank, China ranked 46th among 190 economies worldwide, moving up 32 places from last year. Going all out to embody the country's new development concept and to better its environment for doing business, the city has made plenty of rewarding efforts and achieved lots of remarkable results.

The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC), a leading academic think tank on cities in globalization, released The World According to GaWC 2018 on November 14. In the report, Chengdu ranks 71st and becomes a Beta+ city, topping all new first-tier cities in China.

Global Times ranked Chengdu as one of the most business-friendly cities for global businesses in China in 2018.

The city has put further optimizing the international business environment on the top of its work agenda in 2019. While deepening reform and expanding opening-up to the outside world, it will step up its efforts to better its institutional environment, enhance its soft power and global competitive edge, and launch feasible measures and actions to become more international, market-oriented and business-friendly.